Vittorio Porcelli
A performer and choreographer of Apulian origin, born in 2003, Vittorio Porcelli cultivates a passion for creation and improvisation. He trained with Equilibrio Dinamico and later with the Ballet Junior de Genève, supported by Movin’Up GAi, where he performed works by Noa Zuk, Alessandro Sciarroni, Marcos Morau, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Hofesh Shechter, Kor’sia, among others.
He moved to Vienna as a performer for Marina Abramović’s exhibition at the Albertina Modern and worked with Eglė Budvytytė on the occasion of the 61st Venice Art Biennale for the project Animism Sings Anarchy.
He is currently working on his first authored piece, Violetto Bellosguardo, selected for NID Platform 2025.
A ten-year-old girl, highly competitive, proud, and obsessed with chewing gum and the color blue: Violet Beauregarde. Born in the pages of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, she becomes here a pop counterweight and a critical device through which to question the norms of success and youthful ambition, exploring the construction of identity as a space of negotiation between what we inherit and what we choose.
Vittorio Porcelli associates with the Italian practice of intergenerational name transmission a mechanism typical of children’s literature: one in which names adhere to characters, defining their traits, behaviors, and destinies.
Starting from an autobiographical episode, he reflects on onomastic transmission as a gesture laden with ethical, cultural, and emotional implications. Identity is thus constructed within structures that precede the individual: expectations, narratives, and impositions.
In an attempt to free the author from the imperative of success and Violet from the bright blue of performance, the project rewrites—with irony and provocation—a body shaped by external narratives.
Violetto Bellosguardo intertwines autobiography and fiction to challenge the very idea of achievement and to open up new possibilities of existence and self-determination.